Cholesterol Controversy

The Cholesterol Controversy recounts the long-running debate surrounding the relationship between cholesterol and coronary heart disease. Focussing primarily on events in the UK, the story is told from the origins of the controversy in the 1950s to the discovery, development and trials of statins in the 1970s-1990s; the text concludes with discussion of the concerns over the efficacy of ezetimibe and the safety of torcetrapib.
This text is aimed primarily at physicians and healthcare workers involved in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease, including cardiologists, epidemiologists, lipidologists, pathologists and nutritionists, but it will also be of interest to individuals taking statins or functional foods to lower their cholesterol.
The author, Gilbert Thompson MD, FRCP, is Past Chairman of the British Atherosclerosis Society and the British Hyperlipidaemia Association. He was the first Editor of Current Opinion in Lipidology and has written extensively on the investigation and treatment of hypercholesterolaemia and the prevention of coronary heart disease.

History of Medicine and Medical Biography/Cardiology

Gilbert Thompson